Need help repairing / recovering a corrupt .DWG file

[IRFANAHMED_01]

I M DOING JOB IN PAKISTAN AS A DRAFTMAN, LAST DAY MY FILE WAS CRRUPET, I HAVE ONLY .DWG FILE, NO .BAK NO AC$ FILE,

PLZ HELP ME, HOW I REPAIR MY FILE.

IF U HAVE ANY SOLUTION TELL ME PLZ

I WILL WAIT UR MAIL,

PLZZ HELP ME, I M REALLY IN TROUBLE

[scott.wilcox]

Try using RECOVER, or INSERT it into a blank drawing.

Is there an autosave SV$ file available? search your system for *.sv$; you may be lucky and find one.

[BrenBren]

Try using RECOVER, or INSERT it into a blank drawing.

Is there an autosave SV$ file available? search your system for *.sv$; you may be lucky and find one.

And remember, I think, that those SV$ files might be hidden, so you may have to check your windows properties to unhide them.

[Arben.Allaraj]

I M DOING JOB IN PAKISTAN AS A DRAFTMAN, LAST DAY MY FILE WAS CRRUPET, I HAVE ONLY .DWG FILE, NO .BAK NO AC$ FILE,

PLZ HELP ME, HOW I REPAIR MY FILE.

IF U HAVE ANY SOLUTION TELL ME PLZ

I WILL WAIT UR MAIL,

PLZZ HELP ME, I M REALLY IN TROUBLE

Use 'audit' command or tell us what do you see on your window of AutoCAD when you open
it.

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

The following threads contain a lot of helpful / useful information...

Can not open file

Unable to Open a drawing file

Open a corrupt drawing file

Opening DWG closes CAD

Cannot Recover drawing - AutoCAD 2005 file

Have a good one, Mike

[jswan.83519]

You can try running a recover. Just type in RECOVER in your command line, it will then ask you to select your file.

If that does not work, in your open drawing dialog box, right click on your drawing name, select the properties option, then select the previous options tab. There should be a few versions, highlight the one you want and select the view button, it might take a minute, but a dialog box will show up saying it is a read-only drawing. Select ok, and it will open up the drawing and if it is what you want you can do a save as and overwrite the corrupt file.

[jaberwok]

If that does not work, in your open drawing dialog box, right click on your drawing name, select the properties option, then select the previous options tab. There should be a few versions, highlight the one you want and select the view button, it might take a minute, but a dialog box will show up saying it is a read-only drawing. Select ok, and it will open up the drawing and if it is what you want you can do a save as and overwrite the corrupt file.

Unfortunately, that will only work if you have appropriate back-up software installed. It is not a feature of acad or of windows.